Review of Melancholia (2011) by Dean T — 10 Sep 2012

The feel shitty movie of the year! Maybe of all time. It gave me nightmares. Worries? Don't worry, Melancholia is coming. No need to worry. That made me wake up and then say "don't worry, it's a dream," and then repeat the cycle maybe 3 or 4 times. Still, the images were weird and beautiful. Watch the first 15 minutes. When you see the words "Melancholia," then turn it off. Enough already.

Danish writer-director Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" is so bleak that it imagines not just the end of the world but the annihilation of all life in the universe.

That's because, according to the film, life only exists on Earth -- and the Earth is blasted into nothingness during the movie's stunning opening sequence, a prelude/montage of beautifully composed, digitally enhanced, slow-motion images of drowning brides and collapsing horses and falling birds that ends with the collision of our planet and a second, larger world, named Melancholia.